An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
No Adoration? Gosh!
Obama cancels public speech in Rio square: embassy
The speech in the historic plaza known as Cinelandia, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, “is cancelled,” an embassy spokeswoman told AFP.
Obama instead will deliver remarks at Rio’s Municipal Theatre, the official said, without specifying whether it would be open to the public or exclusively for invited guests.
No explanation for the change of venue was given by the embassy. Brazilian authorities have laid out a heavy security presence for Obama’s two-day visit to South America’s largest nation, and police in Rio had closed numerous streets from midnight Thursday in preparation.
On Thursday, members of an advance US security team were seen inspecting the surroundings of Cinelandia, where anti-US banners could be seen hanging from a road-side fence.
In a rather odd way, this is actually pretty funny. Not that I want any harm to come to ol’ D’Bama, but the idea he isn’t adored around the world, like he believes himself to be, is quite amusing. Perhaps he should have stayed at home and taken care of serious business in THIS country, instead of gallivanting off, trying to impress a bunch of foreigners for “spring break”? I wonder how many of the beautiful places, right here in the U.S. of A. he has bothered to take his family to see? Or is this country not good enough for the globe trotters?
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